Far More Terrible For Women

April 22, 1944 Pauli Murray Law Student at Howard University Thompson’s Café Importance of women to a movement that seems to be male dominated.

Pauli Murray Students wouldn’t leave National Headquarters said the demonstrators could be served First time blacks were served at a whites only establishment in DC

What does this tell us about the civil rights movement? Gandhi (Not Dr. King) 16 years later these actions would be employed in non-violent resistant movements Pauli Murray? Highlights the connectedness between racism and misogyny

Women During Slavery Frederick Douglass wrote, “When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, woman will occupy a large space in its pages; for the cause of the slave has been peculiarly woman’s cause”.

Far More Terrible for Women Field work + Domestic Work Pregnancies (miscarriages) Constant beatings The threat/idea of rape by white men

Black and White Women White women had no rights Husbands sexual betrayal (mulatto children) Woman’s Paradox White Women – Pure, forced to deny sexual urge Black Women – passionate animal Both ensured male dominance

Black and White Women White women legally subordinate “cult of womanhood” Black and white women began organizing Maria Stewart First public lecture given by a woman Afric-American Female Intelligence Society 1837 – Anti Slavery Convention of American Women Harriet Tubman

The Split 14th Amendment – included the word male 15th Amendment – women were excluded once again White women realized they would not gain their rights through fighting on the behalf of racial equity

The Black Woman’s Dilemma Women’s Rights Movement Or The Black Movement